Angel Blessings for Babies
Ambika Wauters

Publication Date:
Spring 2010

Anyone welcoming a new baby into the world will appreciate angelic guidance. It can help ease any worries about the baby and the birth, and once the baby is born, it can bring a very special dimension to this new relationship.

With their themes of healing and wholeness, the meditations and prayers in the book offer a way of connecting to the spirit that babies bring from the heavenly realm to earth. This connection can help form a deep, abiding bond with a baby and ensure stability, wholeness and acceptance.

The book supports parents, grandparents, siblings and close relatives, in accepting their roles; it helps them release old wounds from their own childhoods, which may limit the full expression of their love for a new baby. It provides guidance for accepting the demanding tasks of parenting and it attempts to ensure that all babies brought into the world are loved, cherished and kept safe.

• Angelic guidance, prayers and meditations that can help a woman enjoy a stress-free pregnancy and for all family members to communicate to the new arrival that he or she is loved, wanted and cherished
  
• Help in establishing the emotional environment in which new life can grow and flourish
  
• Access to the spiritual love that can create a ring of protection around a baby
  
• Access to the angels of the zodiac and specific advice about promoting the strengths of babies born under each sign
  
• Inspirational works of art that symbolise the qualities that angels bestow
  
• Beautifully bound with special bookmark and printed in 5 colurs

Ambika Wauters is a classical homeopath, director of The Institute of Life Energy Medicine, principal of the School of Spiritual Homeopathy and founder of The Heart of Peace Institute, a non-profit programme for children on the autistic spectrum. She is author of 16 books on healing, the realm of angels, colour and homeopathy including the best-selling The Angelic Year published by Carroll and Brown. She lives in Tucson, Arizona

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Size: 128 pages 200 x 200mm
Binding: Clothbound with bookmark
Images: 120

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Getting to Know Your Baby
Kyra Karmiloff and
Dr. Annette Karmiloff-Smith


Publication Date:
Summer 2010

Babies arrive in the world already equipped with many skills, reflexes and instincts that help them adapt to and influence their environment as well as the people who fill it. This book aims to help parents see the world as their baby's does so that they become better equipped to help this learning process along. It explains how babies find out about themselves and their physical and social environments through a combination of interaction, experience, trial and error, and nurturing.

The book is divided into five sections dealing with different aspects of a baby's life, from birth through to toddlerhood. The first part looks at infant behaviour, with the aim of helping parents to understand how a newborn adapts to life outside the womb; the second examines babies' early experiences in the social world, looking at how they respond to others and start forming a sense of self; this is followed by a look at the world of words, examining how a baby learns to understand and produce language; the fourth section deals with the physical world and a baby's gross and fine motor development, looking at the ways in which a baby gains control over his or her body, becomes mobile and learns about objects; and finally the last section examines a baby's developing intelligence, including discussions on memory and problem solving skills. Throughout, there are helpful tips and suggestions about how parents can positively influence their child's journey towards independence through a better understanding of the world from a baby's perspective.

• Unique insights into the psychology of your young baby
  
• The latest scientific explanations of how a baby’s brain “works” and how he sees the world around him
  
• Descriptions of observable baby behaviour and what the behaviour represents
  
• Useful hints and tips on making the most of your baby’s developmental skills
  
• Guidance on understanding your baby needs and making the appropriate responses
  
• Suggestions for creating a mutually rewarding relationship with your new baby
  
• Specialist knowledge by experts in the field

Kyra Karmiloff, a research psychologist, is a freelance writer with over fifteen years of copy-writing and editing experience. She was the main editor and writer for Pampers.com parenting website including content planning and writing for all Newsletters, both online and direct mail, as well as booklets and copy for coordinated events. Annette Karmiloff-Smith PhD is a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. She is an expert in developmental disorders. Together they have created Everything Your Baby Would Ask If Only He/She Could Talk. published by Carroll & Brown; booklets on fetal and infant development for parents entitled: Look, Listen, Feel, Explore, Learn, Express and Pathways to language: From fetus to adolescent. Developing Child Series, Harvard University Press.

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Size: 160 pages 245 x 171mm
Binding: Paperback
Images: Approx 100 illustrations

Super Foods for Pregnancy
Susannah Marriott

Publication Date:
Autumn 2010

Certain foods pack a “nutritional punch”, and can provide the optimal nutrients to nourish an expectant woman – particularly important when pregnancy side effects make eating almost anything at all difficult. By feasting on the foods that do her and her baby most good, a pregnant woman can ensure that her baby’s brain and other organs, tissues and bones, develop healthily and that she maintains the strength and stamina to carry her baby to term and withstand the rigours of labour and delivery. Some foods, too, can be used to create safe and supportive products that can be applied to the skin, used to promote sleep and combat nausea and other side effects.

Super Foods for Pregnancy helps readers to choose the freshest and  most nutrient-packed foodstuffs from supermarkets and farmer’s markets, and advises on their safe and efficient preparation and storage. As well as quick and easy ways to serve and/or use each item, there is also a comprehensive collection of delicious recipes. Moreover, because gardening can promote relaxation and emotional wellbeing as well as produce chemical-free produce, there is guidance given on growing some beneficial vegetables and herbs in a small garden or containers, or gathering from the wild.

• Essential help in choosing the foods that best meet a pregnant woman’s nutritional needs
  
• Advice on recognising the freshest and most suitable items
  
• Guidance on preparing, cooking and storing foodstuffs safely
  
• Techniques for maximising nutritional benefits
  
• Dozens of delicious and nutrient-filled recipes to meet mother’s and baby’s needs
  
• Information on using certain foods to ease common pregnancy complaints and care for hair and skin
  
• Safe and simple techniques for gathering or growing your own while pregnant
  
• Step-by-step sequences of food preparation and cultivation

Susannah Marriott is the mother of three daughters and writes about natural approaches to pregnancy and parenting. She has written 19 books, including Your Non-Toxic Pregnancy and Natural Pregnancy published by Carroll and Brown. Her writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Junior, Top Sante, Health & Fitness and Healthy. She has blogged for babyexpert.com and mumknowsbest.co.uk and has been a guest parenting expert on mymommymanual.com. She lives in Cornwall and raises organic fruit, vegetables and herbs.

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Size: 128 pages 268 x 216mm
Binding: Paperback
Images: 150

Conceiving and carrying a second baby is not always easier or even as easy as a first pregnancy. During each stage of the process – conception, pregnancy, labour and birth – there will be experiences that differ. Your ability to conceive a healthy child and have a vaginal delivery, your risk of suffering certain pregnancy-related conditions, the ease with which you are able to maintain your physical wellbeing and that of your unborn baby while caring for an older child, and your being able to manage a two-child family are only some of the challenges you will meet in a second pregnancy.
Many second-time mothers are in their late thirties and forties and this has particular relevance when it comes to conceiving and antenatal care. They also have to weigh carefully the additional risks of trying for a vaginal birth after a previous caesarean delivery as against those of a repeat caesarean.

Pregnancy manuals in the main are directed at first-time mothers and coverage of further pregnancies can be cursory. This book, therefore, fills a gap in the marketplace. No two pregnancies and births are ever exactly the same – even for the same woman – and this book will explain why.

• Coverage of secondary infertility and the assisted conception techniques that have proved successful for later pregnancies 
  
• The latest medical advice on the necessary antenatal tests and procedures
  
• An explanation of the changing risk factors inherent with repeat IVF and pregnancy, rhesus incompatibility and twin and caesarean deliveries
  
• Advice on protecting yourself and your unborn baby while caring for your existing child ­– even if the latter is unwell
  
• Suggestions for creating a unique relationship with your new baby while in utero
  
• Strategies for coping with sibling rivalry and ensuring family harmony
  
• Material provided by many of the same physicians and experts who helped compile Your Pregnancy Bible

Dr. Penny Preston qualified as a doctor in 1989 and worked as a general practitioner for some years before becoming a health writer. She has contributed to numerous titles covering all areas of health and medicine, while having a special interest in pregnancy and child health. Other contributors include Drs. Keith Eddleman and Joanne Stone of the Mt Sinai School of Medicine Maternal-Fetal Division.

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Size: 128 pages 246 x 189mm
Binding: Paperback
Images: 150